What Doctors Don't Tell YouA new, landmark study has shown that pregnant women with preeclampsia treated with magnesium sulphate can halve the risk of eclampsia (convulsions) and maternal death.
Obese people who take an appetite suppressant for more than three months increase by 30 times their chances of developing primary pulmonary hypertension, a usually fatal condition affecting the ar ...
In contrast with popular opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for you, women who drink are far more at risk from breast cancer than those who do not touch a drop of alcohol. ...
Scientists have detected a link between the ulcer causing Helicobacter pylori (HP) bug and gastric cancer but it's something that doctors aren't telling their patients about. ...
Reader's Corner
Reader's Corner
One of the medical myths we live with is the notion that eye disease arises as an inevitable consequence of growing older. This month’s cover story concerns eyedrops given for glaucoma, a condition that, with cataracts, has been considered as...
In The Bristol Programme, author Penny Brohn, former cancer victim and co-founder of the Bristol Centre, emphatically states: "There is no conflict between following the Bristol routines and takin ...
The consequence of over-prescribing is a resistance to drugs. It has already happened to antibiotics, and now the same thing is being seen with the antiviral drugs. As a result, diseases such as HIV and hepatitis B are more difficult to manage.
